Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Corruption Vs. Corruption

Big ticket financial
corruption has received a lot of attention lately. While I found the anarchic
tendency of the agitations and the "either you are with us or against
us" tone of "Team Anna", IAC etc. problematic and undemocratic
there was no denying that financial corruption was and is a relevant issue. However
to use such agitations as a smoke screen to prop up controversial leaders and unacceptable
ideologies as legitimate governance models, is itself corruption of
the highest kind.

Conveniently, political
leaders are being assessed only and only
from the prism of financial corruption.

Here we have "leaders" who have no respect
for human life in particular and humanity in general yet there is hardly any
popular middle class resentment. Atleast nothing comparable to what we see for the issue of
"corruption."

What should be the priority if one had to chose between catching a murderer or a thief?

So if Mr. Chetan Bhagat the leader of
the "Mera Neta Chor hai" campaign (http://www.chetanbhagat.com/blog/2011/04/07/mera-neta-chor-hai/)
were to come up with a "Mera Neta Katil hai" campaign is he likely to
get popular middle class support? Of course, the more interesting question is
whether Mr. Chetan Bhagat would be interested in leading such a movement at
all?!